CanCOLD is composed of experienced researchers who have a national and international leadership signature profile in respiratory health. This interdisciplinary team is comprised of highly skilled and passionate individuals who are all leaders in their field with a strong sense of standards and ethics.

CanCOLD Team

CanCOLD is composed of experienced researchers who have a national and international leadership signature profile in respiratory health. This interdisciplinary team is comprised of highly skilled and passionate individuals who are all leaders in their field with a strong sense of standards and ethics.

LEAD INVESTIGATOR

Since 1995, Dr. Bourbeau has dedicated his clinical and epidemiology research efforts to helping those suffering from COPD. Currently, he is the Director of the Montreal Chest Institute’s COPD clinic and pulmonary rehabilitation program, and the director of the COPD Respiratory Health Network of the Fond de la Recherche en santé du Quebec (FRSQ). Dr Bourbeau has lead and devised, with other health professionals from the Quebec province, the renowned self-management COPD program called “Living well with COPD”. This program implemented worldwide has not only been shown to reduce hospital admissions by 40%, but it also demonstrated that such programs are able to reduce the economic burden of this disease.

CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

In addition to her role as an advisory member of GOLD, Dr. Wan Tan is also a member of the advisory group to the World Lung Health Committee and the International Relations Committee of the American Thoracic Society. She is currently the lead investigator for the Canadian multicentre prevalence study “COLD (Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease)”; this is the foundation for the CanCOLD Study.

Dr. Denis O’Donnell
Professor of Medicine, Physiology, and Kinesiology/Health studies at Queens University
and Director of the Respiratory Investigation Unit at Kingston General Hospital
and Director of the COPD center and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program,
Kingston (ON)

Dr. Roger Goldstein
Professor Medicine and Physical Therapy University of Toronto Director, Divisional Program
in Respiratory Rehabilitation, University of Toronto Department of Medicine West Park Hospital,
Toronto (ON)

Dr. Darcy Marciniuk
Medical Director, Chronic Disease Management Program for Saskatoon Health Region,
Royal University Hospital, Saskatchewan University, Professor of Medicine at the University
of Saskatchewan,
Saskatoon (SK)